Re: Dia freeze up

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Hello Hans,

I may have spoken too soon about re install fixing it, but it is easy
so I will try again.

Also the anti-alias - do you mean the setting in View Defaults?  I
have that unchecked.

I don't understand "antialiased (cairo) rendering" if that is different.

Mike

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:
> At 09.09.2012 16:32, Michael Ross wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > This happens often, and I don't know how to trouble shoot it to provide
> > better information.
> Checking changes in your usage pattern could be a starting point (or maybe
> you are seeing more freezes with Dia 0.97.2 than with Dia 0.97.1?)
>
> > Running 0.97.2 on Win7
> There was a big dependency update with the last minor update of Dia with the
> dia-installer. So you might trigger some bug comming with that update.
>
>
> > Just now I was placing an arc between to circle centers.  The 3rd pick is
> > to change the diameter, when tried to do this it got stuck and I have the
> > busy cursor.   I will have to kill the program to get it free, start
> > again,
> > and loose my work.
> I recently had a freeze in cairo related to arcs with invalid parameters.
> Are you using the antialiased (cairo) rendering? If so the probabilty of
> freezes might be reduced by switching to the non-antialiased.
>
>
> > This happens nearly every time I use Dia.   I have not kept good track of
> > what I am doing when this happens.  It may only be the arc, but it may be
> > other functions as well.
> Maybe the log-file %TEMP%\dia--0.97.2.log contains more information.
>
>
> > Any ideas about how to stop it without killing Dia?  Any ideas on how to
> > tell what causes the problem?
> Not that I thought it would help, but last time reinstallation seems to have
> solved your problem (-:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dia-list/2012-June/msg00087.html
>
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